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Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. Licenses Its Leading European Blood and Laboratory Solutions to Homburg, Germany Clinic Blood Center

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 08:00 CDT

The University of Saarland Clinic Blood Center Chooses Inlog's EdgeBlood and EdgeLab to Manage Its Blood Bank and Laboratory

DENVER, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med Technologies, Inc. ("Global Med" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: GLOB), an international healthcare information technology company, today announced that GLI, the German division of the Company's Inlog subsidiary has licensed its EdgeBlood(TM) blood information management system and EdgeLab(TM) laboratory information system to the "Universitatsklinikum des Saarlandes - Institut fur Klinische Hamostaseologie und Transfusionsmedizin" located in Homburg, Germany. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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The University of Saarland Clinic Blood Center collects 30,000 whole blood donations per year. EdgeBlood and EdgeLab will be deployed on 25 workstations in the blood center and laboratory. Up to 50 remote users will access the Web result server EdgeNet. Five analyzers will be connected to EdgeLab, Inlog's Laboratory Information System.

"After detailed market research, the University Medical Center of Saarland has decided to install the LIS EdgeBlood/EdgeLab from the company, GLI. This decision was made because, among other reasons, the system can completely control the management of all essential services in transfusion medicine. Moreover, the software is already in use in the National German Red Cross Blood Donation Services. It has also been used successfully in comparable university facilities for many years. In view of the connection between pharmaceutical and clinical aspects of transfusion medicine, EdgeBlood and EdgeLab will create a center of excellence for the University Medical Center of Saarland," stated Prof. Dr. med. Hermann Eichler of the Institute of Clinical Hemostaseology and Transfusion Medicine Homburg/University Medical Center of Saarland.

EdgeBlood, known as "CTS Serveur" in the French market, is a leading Blood Center management system that manages all blood that is drawn, tested, produced and labeled in France by the Etablissement Francais du Sang, the French Blood Establishment (EFS). EdgeBlood is also used to process more than half the blood drawn in Germany as well as processing significant parts of the Austrian and Swiss blood supplies. EdgeBlood is also used in Greece as well as five African countries. EdgeBlood has an easy-to-use Windows graphical user interface and contains all major functionality needed by a blood center from donor recruitment through product distribution.

Since EdgeLab was introduced into the hospital market in 1999 as "Labo Serveur", it has become a leading Laboratory Information Management System in Europe with more than 150 licensed laboratories. EdgeLab is connected with more than 1,000 analyzers and interchanges data with all major hospital healthcare software packages. It has a vibrant, easy-to-use Windows graphical interface in addition to a comprehensive range of laboratory functionality. EdgeLab can be easily configured to meet the business needs of large, diverse, multi-site hospital laboratories, as well as small, single site hospitals.

Will Willman, Global Med's Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing EU/ME/Asia, commented, "We are pleased to have placed both our EdgeBlood and EdgeLab solutions at the University of Saarland Homburg Clinic. Our reputation for having leading edge solutions, as well as excellent service in Germany, earned this customer for us. We look forward to helping the Homburg Clinic Blood Center provide quality blood products and services in their community."

About the University of Saarland Clinic Blood Center

The Universitatsklinikum des Saarlandes has a very large campus comprising 100 buildings, 36 clinics and institutes where almost 5,000 are employed. It was founded in 1922 and has grown from 1,100 beds to 1,415 and admits 51,051 patients per year.

About Global Med Technologies(R), Inc.

Global Med Technologies, Inc. is an international healthcare information technology company which develops regulated and non-regulated products and services for the healthcare industry. As a leading provider of blood and laboratory systems and services, Global Med's products are deployed in 20 countries and serve over 2,100 transfusion centers, blood banks and laboratory sites.

Global Med's domestic companies are Wyndgate Technologies(R), a leader in software products and services for donor centers and hospital transfusion services; eDonor(R), which offers web-based donor relationship management systems; and PeopleMed(TM), Inc., which implements cost-effective software validation, consulting and compliance solutions to hospitals and donor centers.

Global Med's European subsidiary, Inlog, SA, is a leading developer of donor center and transfusion management systems as well as cellular therapy software, laboratory information systems and quality assurance medical software systems internationally.

For more information about Global Med's products and services, please call 800-996-3428 or visit www.globalmedtech.com.

This news release may include statements that constitute forward-looking statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project," "expects" or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this news release.

SOURCE Global Med Technologies, Inc.

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